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Centuries later, the same image of the net was imposed upon the world as the lines of both celestial and terrestrial latitude and longitude, as graph paper for plotting mathematical wiggles, as pigeonholes for filing, and as the ground plan for cities.

But since there must be something somewhere, expectation is kindled again to keep us all going for that golden, galuptious goodie at the end of the line.

The difficulty with every one of these disciplines is that the moment you are seriously involved, you find yourself boxed in some special in-group which defines itself, often with the most elegant subtlety, by the exclusion of an out-group.

This line leads from the hoe of former times up to the modern steam plough, from stable manure up to present artificial fertilisers.

In short, they see the decline and cannot muster up the strength of determination to battle against it, because in the resistance and in this deed itself they already again begin to smell out some possible objection or other.

Today there are not a few men, especially the so called educated ones, who, when they finally make up their minds to fall in line with a certain action or even to promote it, first carefully weigh the percentage of the probability of its success, in order then to calculate the extent of their active involvement likewise on the basis of this percentage.

The marks of these wires, visible in the finished paper when held up to the light, are called wire linesand chain linesrespectively.

She will have to realise that armies and navies are set up and organised, not along romantic lines, but according to practical requirements.

Peter, and your own secureness, suppress heresy, and his holiness’ enemies.

He was brought up to husbandry, and other country business, and was particularly inclined to the solitary occupation of a shepherd.

A few minutes later an officer came hurriedly out of the front door, gave an order, and the dragoons formed up in line.

He saw the frightened and then infuriated face of the dragoon who dealt the blow, the look of silent, timid reproach that boy in the fur-lined coat had turned upon him.

Where is the daughter who had pity upon the filthy drunkard, her earthly father, undismayed by his beastliness.

Often he went to sleep on it, as he was, without undressing, without sheets, wrapped in his old student’s overcoat, with his head on one little pillow, under which he heaped up all the linen he had, clean and dirty, by way of a bolster.

Marfa Petrovna went so far as to strike Dounia, refused to hear anything and was shouting at her for a whole hour and then gave orders that Dounia should be packed off at once to me in a plain peasant’s cart, into which they flung all her things, her linen and her clothes, all pell-mell, without folding it up and packing it.